{"id":8299,"date":"2026-01-18T07:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:14:20","slug":"liberty-defeats-utep-80-69-remains-perfect-in-cusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=8299","title":{"rendered":"Liberty defeats UTEP 80-69, remains perfect in CUSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberty Flames pushed past the UTEP Miners in the second half for an 80-69 triumph on Saturday afternoon to stay unbeaten in CUSA play and at home on the year.Liberty improves to 15-3 overall and a perfect 7-0 in CUSA matchups while bolstering its home record to a perfect 10-0. The Flames are riding a nine-game winning streak and have not lost since Dec. 10. Meanwhile, UTEP slips to 6-12 and 2-5 in the league.<\/p>\n<p>The Miners entered the day having won two of their last three games. The Flames shot nearly 60 percent (59.3 percent, 32-of-54) in the victory while receiving a combined 68 points from Zach Cleveland (20 points), Brett Decker Jr. (20 points), Colin Porter (15 points) and Kaden Metheny (13 points).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KyUI5MioA4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2026\/01\/18\/liberty-basketball-remains-perfect-cusa-play-with-80-69-win-over-utep\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com reports &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberty Flames pushed past the UTEP Miners in the second half for an 80-69 triumph on Saturday afternoon to stay unbeaten in CUSA play a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=8299\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty defeats UTEP 80-69, remains perfect in CUSA<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[636,637],"class_list":["post-8299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-defeats-utep-80-69","tag-remains-perfect-in-cusa","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-29R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8300,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions\/8300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}